Object Details
- Creator
- Susanne Hilberry Gallery
- Hilberry, Susanne, 1943-2015
- Names
- Artschwager, Richard, 1923-
- Benglis, Lynda, 1941-
- Kaneko, Jun, 1942-
- Katz, Alex, 1927-
- MacKenzie, Warren, 1924-2018
- Mitchnick, Nancy, 1947-
- Pfaff, Judy, 1946-
- Phelan, Ellen, 1943-
- Scanga, Italo, 1932-2001
- Shapiro, Joel
- Provenance
- Donated 2017 by the Susanne Hilberry Estate via Daniel Feld, Trustee.
- Creator
- Susanne Hilberry Gallery
- Hilberry, Susanne, 1943-2015
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- Susanne Hilberry Gallery records
- Summary
- The records of the Susanne Hilberry Gallery measure 5.8 linear feet and 10.1 gigabytes, and date from 1964-2017, with the bulk of the material dating from 1976-2016. Gallery artists include Richard Artschwager, Lynda Benglis, Jun Kaneko, Ellen Phelan, Italo Scanga, Joel Shapiro, Alex Katz, Judy Pfaff, Warren MacKenzie, and Nancy Mitchnick, among many others. The collection consists largely of files grouped by artist containing correspondence, sales records, and exhibition records documenting the activities of the gallery including outside or traveling exhibitions and other initiatives. Also included are significant amounts of visual materials (photographs, slides, transparencies, and digital images) documenting gallery exhibitions and the oeuvres of the gallery artists, as well as digital video recordings in the form of video works, recordings of artist talks, and artwork documentation.
- Biographical / Historical
- Susanne Hilberry Gallery was a contemporary art gallery opened by Susanne Hilberry in 1976 in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham. The gallery moved to Ferndale, Michigan in 2002, and closed in early 2017 following Hilberry's death in 2015. Susanne Hilberry was a pioneering presence in the Detroit art scene. Before opening her gallery she earned a degree in art history from Wayne State University and a master's degree from Yale in architectural history, and later served as an assistant to the curator of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Sam Wagstaff. Wagstaff encouraged Susanne to open her gallery, which focused on bringing emerging art trends and established artists not being shown otherwise in the area, as well as championing the careers of local artists. Hilberry's dedication to developing the local art scene played out in her encouragement and support of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, where she served as a steering committee member after its opening in 2006.
- Function
- Art galleries, Commercial -- Michigan
- Extent
- 5.8 Linear feet
- 10.1 Gigabytes
- Date
- 1964-2016
- bulk 1976-2016
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.susahilb
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Gigabytes
- Photographs
- Citation
- Susanne Hilberry Gallery records, 1964-2017, bulk 1976-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as 4 series. Series 1: Artist Files, circa 1964-2016 (4.5 Linear feet; Boxes 1-5, 10.1 Gigabytes; ER01-ER08) Series 2: Group Show Files, 1976-2016 (0.3 Linear feet; Box 5) Series 3: Tranparencies, circa 1980-1999 (0.2 Linear feet; Box 5) Series 4: Slides, circa 1976-1999 (0.8 linear feet; Boxes 6-7)
- Processing Information
- The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Ryan Evans in 2018.
- Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents
- The records of the Susanne Hilberry Gallery measure 5.8 linear feet and 10.1 gigabytes, and date from 1964-2017, with the bulk of the material dating from 1976-2016. Gallery artists include Richard Artschwager, Lynda Benglis, Jun Kaneko, Ellen Phelan, Italo Scanga, Joel Shapiro, Alex Katz, Judy Pfaff, Warren MacKenzie, and Nancy Mitchnick, among many others. The collection consists largely of files grouped by artist containing correspondence, sales records, and exhibition records documenting the activities of the gallery including outside or traveling exhibitions and other initiatives. Also included are significant amounts of visual materials (photographs, slides, transparencies, and digital images) documenting gallery exhibitions and the oeuvres of the gallery artists, as well as digital video recordings in the form of video works, recordings of artist talks, and artwork documentation. The artist files document each gallery artist's exhibition history in the gallery and include correspondence with the artist or estate as well as files documenting significant outside exhibitions, projects and the placement of artworks. The group show files document the production of select group exhibitions organized throughout the span of the gallery's operation. Transparencies and slides document the respective artists' exhibitions at Susanne Hilberry Gallery, and also contain representations of individual works. The group show slides document select group exhibitions.
- Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Use of archival audiovisual recordings and born-digital records with no duplicate copy requires advance notice.
- Record ID
- ebl-1519239607159-1519239607171-0
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